Was it Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer reporting on Ted Turner? If it's Cooper, I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt. If it's Blitzer, I'm going to have to wait for the follow up report "I checked with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and yes, the initial report of five extra penii was inaccurate; the source was simply shaking Mr. Turner's hand and noticed he had fingers."

Syria can't even tame their own rebel, and suddenly they are going to take on Israel? Lebanon is scared shiatless that the sectarian violence will spill over on their side of the border worst than it already has, and no way they are getting involved over this. Jordan? Egypt? Don't make me laugh. What are the Iraqis going to do about it? Yemen? Saudi Arabia? Qatar? Dubai? UAE?

The only wildcard there is Iran... and how on earth are they going to be able to project enough power to make it to Israel? What, they'd fire missiles at Israel? That would be giving us (and America) the perfect opportunity to get rid of their nuclear weapons program.

These cries of 'Tis the end of the world as we know it!' are ridiculous.

well...nothing other than the fact that the rest of the world is going to think Israel is being a prick. Which we already knew. But I guess for some reason Israel felt the need to remind the world that they're ok with beating up on people weaker than themselves for no reason other than they can.

Syria can't even tame their own rebel, and suddenly they are going to take on Israel? Lebanon is scared shiatless that the sectarian violence will spill over on their side of the border worst than it already has, and no way they are getting involved over this. Jordan? Egypt? Don't make me laugh. What are the Iraqis going to do about it? Yemen? Saudi Arabia? Qatar? Dubai? UAE?

The only wildcard there is Iran... and how on earth are they going to be able to project enough power to make it to Israel? What, they'd fire missiles at Israel? That would be giving us (and America) the perfect opportunity to get rid of their nuclear weapons program.

These cries of 'Tis the end of the world as we know it!' are ridiculous.

Weaver95:well...nothing other than the fact that the rest of the world is going to think Israel is being a prick. Which we already knew. But I guess for some reason Israel felt the need to remind the world that they're ok with beating up on people weaker than themselves for no reason other than they can.

The rest of the world thinking that Israel are being pricks?

Obama came out and not only said that Israel was right to do what it did, but gave carte blanche for many such operations in the future as well. The EU also said that Israel had every right to do what it did, and while Arab States have not reacted openly about this, considering the fact that they are all rooting for Assad to fall and rooting openly for the rebels, I'm sure Jerusalem received many encrypted cables congratulating them and wishing for more.

The only people who think Israel was wrong to do that are the furthest extremists on the far fringes.

Tatsuma:Weaver95: well...nothing other than the fact that the rest of the world is going to think Israel is being a prick. Which we already knew. But I guess for some reason Israel felt the need to remind the world that they're ok with beating up on people weaker than themselves for no reason other than they can.

The rest of the world thinking that Israel are being pricks?

Obama came out and not only said that Israel was right to do what it did, but gave carte blanche for many such operations in the future as well. The EU also said that Israel had every right to do what it did, and while Arab States have not reacted openly about this, considering the fact that they are all rooting for Assad to fall and rooting openly for the rebels, I'm sure Jerusalem received many encrypted cables congratulating them and wishing for more.

The only people who think Israel was wrong to do that are the furthest extremists on the far fringes.

Surprised Israel has taken this long to do anything. With the crazy civil war next store, reports of Assad having chemical weapons (before the reports of using them), I figured they'd strike depots early to avoid those weapons getting distributed to the crazies. Also surprised Turkey hasn't done anything either.

If/when Assad falls, there's a strong likelihood that the storage facilities get raided by rebels. If that crap falls into the wrong hands, like the crazy fundies instead of the FSA, every border country is at risk.

doglover:Israel actually does something to improve the situation in the very real interests of their own national security and you'd think it'd be lauded. But no, it's bad because it's Israel.

I don't get the hate.

you answered your own question - it's because Israel has a reputation for being pricks that nobody trusts their motives. think of it as 'the boy who cried wolf'. Israel has cried wolf many, many, many, many times. so even if/when they come up against a situation where they ARE in the right....nobody is gonna trust 'em. And you know what? I don't feel sorry for Israel at all. I'd like us to be done with them. they're big enough to stand on their own. let them go and do things their own with, without the protection of the United States.

well...nothing other than the fact that the rest of the world is going to think Israel is being a prick. Which we already knew. But I guess for some reason Israel felt the need to remind the world that they're ok with beating up on people weaker than themselves for no reason other than they can.

Weaver95:again, if that's what gets you thru the day, sure. Dad passed away 4 years ago btw. thanks for noticing.

Did he? Very sorry about that. I remember that you discussed his health and situation on TF, I did not realize it had been that long, I thought it would have been more or less around two years ago before I mostly left Fark.

My condolences. Very sorry about that.

doglover:Well, honestly, the Israelis are often pricks in the international community. This isn't one of those times though.

Every single day it's "Syrian government commits new atrocity. Rebels gain West's support."

Israel actually does something to improve the situation in the very real interests of their own national security and you'd think it'd be lauded. But no, it's bad because it's Israel.

I don't get the hate.

That's what happens when you treat politics with football. Your team or nothing!

dr_blasto:Surprised Israel has taken this long to do anything. With the crazy civil war next store, reports of Assad having chemical weapons (before the reports of using them), I figured they'd strike depots early to avoid those weapons getting distributed to the crazies. Also surprised Turkey hasn't done anything either.

If/when Assad falls, there's a strong likelihood that the storage facilities get raided by rebels. If that crap falls into the wrong hands, like the crazy fundies instead of the FSA, every border country is at risk.

Well there are rumors of plenty of special ops things happening, and other things I won't go into details. As far as why right now? Well it has to do with the fact that Assad has decided to get the genie out of the bottle, and he's also been stepping up the transfer of weapons to Hizbullah.

By the time Assad falls, there won't be any chemical or biological weapons left.

Tatsuma:dr_blasto: Surprised Israel has taken this long to do anything. With the crazy civil war next store, reports of Assad having chemical weapons (before the reports of using them), I figured they'd strike depots early to avoid those weapons getting distributed to the crazies. Also surprised Turkey hasn't done anything either.

If/when Assad falls, there's a strong likelihood that the storage facilities get raided by rebels. If that crap falls into the wrong hands, like the crazy fundies instead of the FSA, every border country is at risk.

Well there are rumors of plenty of special ops things happening, and other things I won't go into details. As far as why right now? Well it has to do with the fact that Assad has decided to get the genie out of the bottle, and he's also been stepping up the transfer of weapons to Hizbullah.

By the time Assad falls, there won't be any chemical or biological weapons left.

Do you have non-public information, or are you just trying to increase your mystique by hinting that there are things you "won't go into details" on?

This just in: The New York Post reports that the Syrian rebels have assembled, Voltron-like, into a two hundred foot tall combat robot and are attempting to hijack the International Space Station. Developing . . .

Pretty much. I am an Israeli citizen, therefore I obey all laws of the State of Israel. I'm not going to rush and post things I know on the internet to impress a few strangers for being connected to (rather low-level, really) military knowledge when spewing these things all over the internet would put people in danger, some of them friends of mine. Loose lips sink ships is very real in Israel.